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Magnum Analog Recovery 

July 19, 2017 
by Magnum Photographers 
This book presents a collection, stored in the Magnum archives in Paris in boxes and bearing the name of each of the photographers, the “postcard” prints sent out to the European Magnum agents for distribution to the press between 1947 and the end of the 1970s.
Yet this archive only contains a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of prints distributed by the Paris office during those 30 years. Only in rare cases do the stored images bear captions and the typed texts and captions accompanying the images have not always been preserved.

Great icons of the 20th century are to be found alongside images never previously seen or exhibited: they are part of a dialogue linked to what the photographers had to say regarding the definition or contradictions inherent in their work and what was at stake, at a time when the world’s largest ever collective of photographers was taking shape. Their words call to mind just as many contradictory approaches to photography as the images themselves – the other side of the coin strewn with doubts and tensions which makes this array of “witnesses to the transitory” more resonant than ever.

Published at the occasion of the exhibition Magnum Analog Recovery, Le Bal, Paris, April 27th to August 27th, 2017.

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Format: Hardcover
Size: 21 x 35 cm
Pages: 232
Publisher: Le Bal, 2017.